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Bond

See DEED. No technical form of words is necessary to constitute a bond; see Gerrard v. Clowes, (1892) 2 QB 11; Strickland v. Williams, (1899) 1 QB 382. The person giving the bond is called the obligor,

Business

to commercial banking, Mahesh Chandra v. Regional Manager Uttar Pradesh Financial Corpn., AIR 1993 SC 935 (939): (1993) 2 SCC 279. [State Financial Corporation Act, (63 of 1951), s. 24] --Business would undoubtedly be property, unless there

Land

houses, and buildings of any tenure, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 3. By the Law of Property Act,1925, s. 205(1)(ix.), 'land' for the purposes of the Act includes land of any tenure, and mines and minerals, whether or

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Notice

he could have no possible means of making a discovery, Le Neve v. Le Neve, (1747) Amb 436; 2 W&TLC. The decision of Lord Hardwicke in the great case of Le Neve v. Le Neve certainly went

Record

of the Rolls, and a Record Office established by the (English) Public Record Office Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 94). The (English) Public Record Office (commonly called the Rolls Office) is a large building in

Service

extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE. The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.

Tenure

are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, … 592 (597). 1. A right, term, or mode of building lands or tenements in subordination to a superior 2. A peculiar feudal mode of holding lands, such as socage, gavelkind, villeinage and frankalmoign, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

Trust

which postulate the existence of fiduciary relationship between the complainant and the accused, State v. K.P. Jain, (1983) 2 Crimes 947 (All). Trust, is a trust for public purposes, the substances and primary intention of the creator

Settled land

being limited to or in trust for any persons by way of succession' (Settled Land Act, 1882, s. 2) (see infra for the statutory definitions in the Settled Land Act, 1925, which has repealed the S.L. Acts,

Workmen's Compensation Act

of compensation to the proper tribunal, subject to an equitable order for costs (Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, s. 25). Compensation is not payable for an injury which does not disable the workman for at least three days

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